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       2010 Legislature                           SB 502, 1st Engrossed
       
       
       
       
       
       
                                                              2010502er
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    2         An act relating to special investigators; amending s.
    3         27.251, F.S.; deleting a requirement that
    4         investigators be employed on a full-time basis;
    5         specifying matters that may be investigated by special
    6         investigators; providing an effective date.
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    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   10         Section 1. Section 27.251, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   11  read:
   12         27.251 Special organized crime investigators.—The state
   13  attorney of each judicial circuit is authorized to employ any
   14  municipal or county police officer or sheriff’s deputy on a
   15  full-time basis as an investigator for the state attorney’s
   16  office with full powers of arrest throughout the judicial
   17  circuit provided such investigator serves on a special task
   18  force to investigate matters involving criminal activity the
   19  detection of which might benefit from a special task force
   20  organized crime, and, provided further, that the salary of such
   21  municipal or county police officer or sheriff’s deputy shall be
   22  paid by the city, county, or sheriff by which the investigator
   23  is principally employed, and with the consent of the county,
   24  sheriff, or municipality. The arrest powers granted in this
   25  section may herein shall be exercised only in the furtherance of
   26  the conduct of the business of the special task force to which
   27  such municipal or county police officer or sheriff’s deputy is
   28  assigned by the said state attorney.
   29         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.